Hungary have the chance to update their own history


  • Football
  • Wednesday, 25 May 2016

Hungary's players celebrate their victory against Faroe Islands in their Euro 2016 qualifying soccer match in Budapest, Hungary October 8, 2015. REUTERS/Laszlo Balogh

BUDAPEST (Reuters) - History always hangs heavy on the Hungarian national team, whose decades of under-achievement are contrasted with the sepia glory of the 1950s when glittering talents such as Ferenc Puskas and Jeno Buzanszky reshaped football's landscape.

Whatever else Bernd Storck's team achieve -- and nobody expects very much -- they at least have the opportunity to bring the story up to date when they rejoin football's elite in France.

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